You were only in the second grade at that time.
Fifteen minutes ago.
In the mall corridor, staring at the colorful balloons decorating the mall's ceiling, Miss Gou felt that she was probably the most nervous person in the world at the moment.
"Um."
The moment the phone was picked up, the monosyllable coming from the other end made her mind completely blank.
To be honest, her brain, which was overwhelmed by anger, seemed to be just beginning to work again with difficulty. Then, it was as if someone was beating drums and gongs in her ears, reminding her explosively: Congratulations, you went crazy and called He Jinxing, and what's even crazier is that he actually answered the phone.
Damn it.
Gou An moved his lips, and found that he seemed to have lost his voice in the first second——
Although she was not as scared of the King of Hell as she was when she first awakened, it did not mean that she had the courage to bother him with these trivial and childish things and make him hate her again.
She didn't know how to start making such an outrageous request.
As for her silence, the person on the other end of the phone seemed to be unexpectedly patient, and played the dumb game with her while holding the phone.
Gou An even had auditory hallucinations, as if he heard a man's gentle breathing coming from the phone.
After a few seconds, the other party seemed to have finally lost his patience.
"What's up?"
She swallowed hard, and in the chaos of her brain exploding, she finally found her voice.
"Uncle, when you gave me your phone number last time, you said I could come to you if I ran into any trouble again."
Start by morally blackmailing the stranger.
Perhaps sensing her excessive nervousness, the person on the other end of the phone paused for a moment, then chuckled with an ambiguous tone, and then responded with a noncommittal, "Oh."
…………What a shit he said!
Gou An was complaining madly in his mind, but he didn't dare to say a single word of complaint and he clenched the phone in his hand.
"I'm really in big trouble now. To be honest, your nephew and my brother are trying to piss me off at VE Jewelry Store. I won't go into details, and I guess you don't want to hear it. Anyway, could you please call the bank and temporarily suspend your nephew's credit card? I know this proposal sounds like something that a patient with brain stem loss would propose, but this is really the only solution I have... Just suspend it until the coming-of-age ceremony next week, okay?"
Gou An thought for a moment and added:
"It's only a few days. He won't starve to death."
She said it all in one breath and almost bit her tongue.
She was extremely nervous, but she didn't expect the other party to reply with just two words.
"That's it?"
"..." Gou An could only repeat dryly, "Yes, that's it."
"Is this what WeChat was given to you to do?"
What's wrong? Do I have to wait until the second before the tube is removed from the ICU to call you to tell you my last words? The main thing is that I probably won't have anything to say to you before I die.
I couldn't think of any polite answers, so I just kept silent.
However, responding in silence didn't seem to be a bad choice at this time. Gou An didn't know whether He Jinxing on the other end of the phone laughed again. Anyway, after a moment, the man on the other end of the phone agreed without much hesitation.
"knew."
He still used the same nonchalant tone he used when answering the phone.
About ten minutes after hanging up the phone, Gou An came back to the store with a long sigh. When she was anxiously wondering if He Jinxing was just perfunctory and actually forgot what he promised her after putting the phone aside, Gou Xun looked at Gou An blankly and asked, "Who did you call to suspend He Ran's card?"
“…”
Gou An found it difficult to control the corners of his lips from curling up.
Now, she has regained her arrogance.
Miss Gou raised her chin towards her stupid brother who looked incredulous. "I warned you a long time ago not to follow me and not to provoke me, or I would ignore you. Why didn't you listen?"
In fact, if it was a cool story about a female supporting character who traveled through a book and made a comeback, Gou An should have swiped his card as a matter of course and taken away this set of new jewelry that originally belonged to the heroine of the original book. Besides, Gou An really liked the design concept of this season.
Note, once.
Holding her chin up, she suddenly felt bored with the jewelry that she had admired in person half an hour ago.
It was never her intention to take Lu Wan's things away.
It was just that Lu Wan could get what she wanted without any effort.
Unfortunately, when she seemed to have won a war and the fruits of victory were placed in front of her, she no longer wanted them.
After Miss Gou made a scene, she just sat quietly by the side, waiting for Zhou Yutong and Tang Xinjiu to come find her. After the three of them met up, she said calmly with an impeccable smile, "There's nothing I'm particularly excited about. Let's go look somewhere else."
Under the blank gazes of Lu Wan and Gou Xun, Gou An straightened her back with her chin slightly raised, preparing to walk out of the jewelry store. However, at this moment, a salesperson suddenly ran up from behind, grabbed Gou An's head, and whispered something in her ear.
Gou An was stopped by his sales lady.
Turning back, the sales lady held her hand and complained, "Why didn't you tell me that you ordered the haute couture from us? Our supervisor just told me that the item you wanted has been returned. Let's go in and take a look. Wow, so exciting. This is also the first time I've seen a co-branded haute couture item."
The so-called "inside" is the VIP room, a small room on the side of the store. It is a place that only customers who make millions of dollars each year or come to pick up high-end jewelry are eligible to enter.
Gou An had never been there either, and was taken away completely bewildered. She didn't even have time to react and retort: She didn't have the money to buy a co-branded high-end product, they must have made a mistake.
Until the food was handed to her on a dark blue velvet tray.
The main body of the whale is carved with a main stone that is so green that it is almost glassy. The whale's eyes are small pink diamonds that refract brilliantly under the light, symbolizing its small but meticulous carving and excellent grade quality.
The whale's body is inlaid with extremely tiny diamonds of the same grade. Above it, diamonds of the same grade are placed at the place where the whale's head sprays water. The water splashes out and is shaped like a small dazzling crown. On the crown there is also a conch pearl that is almost the same color as the pink diamond on the whale's eye. As the highest grade category of pearls above akoya and Australian white, the round, glossy and rigid conch pearl has become the finishing touch of this gorgeous necklace, adding a touch of low-key elegance to it from the gorgeous jewels.
Along with the necklace came a stack of jewelry certificates. The dark green whale body turned out to be an imperial green glass jadeite, although it was very small and not very thick...
But this is VE.
Necklaces made of malachite are sold by high-end brands for around 15,000 or 16,000 yuan.
"…This is my first time entering this little room. Ah! It turns out that they serve guests sparkling water instead of Evian! I'm a local dog. Can I touch this bottle of sparkling water?"
"Ahhhhhhhh An An, what are you doing! Did you win the lottery this year? You didn't even spend that much money at your coming-of-age ceremony!"
"No, this design looks familiar to me. Is it the design draft of the future Jinshan Wharf Museum that was released by the Institute of Marine Biology two years ago? I heard that the Gold Award later sent it to collaborate with VE -"
"Isn't this the gold medal design?"
Zhou Yutong and Tang Xinjiu were talking to each other as they marveled at the little whale necklace.
Gou An didn't say anything. He stretched out a finger and carefully poked the little whale necklace, his head buzzing.
Her eyes were almost welded to it, she really liked it. Such a cute and eye-catching thing was perfect for her aesthetics.
…………If only it was hers. However, she only restrained herself and touched the whale's crown with one finger. The little girl immediately retracted her finger and put her hands back on her knees.
"——When did Dad buy you this?"
Gou Xun's voice was heard at the door of the VIP room.
Gou An glanced at him calmly.
Gou Xun raised his hand and tugged at his hair in annoyance. "Even my own suit is old. Who on earth is going to attend the coming-of-age ceremony this year?"
"No one is attending." Gou An said coldly, "Your coming-of-age ceremony will be held at KFC. They will give you a small paper crown, wish you a happy birthday, and then the whole restaurant will applaud you."
After she finished her taunting, she did not take advantage of this inexplicable opportunity to continue showing off - it was not that she didn't want to, she really wanted to use this little whale to show off in front of the heroine of the original novel, but she never had the habit of showing off things that did not belong to her.
So after saying that, she turned to the salesperson and said, "Sorry, please confirm the order again. I don't remember that I had a reservation."
Pretty sure it's not hers.
Because her parents had never told her about this kind of surprise, her mother would not hide it from her, and her father was the kind of person who would immediately take credit for anything good he did and could not keep a secret at all.
The sales lady patted her on the shoulder with an expression that said "Hey, what are you talking about?" and handed her the card for signing the order for the custom-made necklace.
The card exuded a faint fragrance, and the name "Gou An" was clearly written in the customized name column, but the signature on the card swiping information was a person with the surname Liu.
Not dad, not mom, not any known relative.
Gou An only knew a person named Liu, who was He Jinxing's secretary.
Gou An: “…”
Blinking blankly, she looked up at the sisters who were constantly exclaiming in amazement at the necklace, and Gou Xun who was looking resentful that his parents were partial to him, and finally Lu Wan who was standing behind Gou Xun and whispering to comfort him.
Gou An: "Is it really mine?"
Gou An was a little bit unbelievable and didn't even dare to touch the necklace immediately.
Goose bumps appeared all over her body. After a moment of chaos, she finally seemed to remember something and picked up her phone.
[Don't be afraid of me winning...]
I didn’t know what to say, so I just typed an ellipsis.
Unexpectedly, the other party seemed to be looking at his phone and replied faster than ever before.
【HJX: Did you see the thing? 】
【Don’t be afraid, I can win:? ! ! ! 】
[HJX: What are you yelling about? You just said you were in VE, so I thought I should give you something while I was at it.]
[Don't be afraid, I can win: huh? ]
Forgive her for having a brain short circuit, she even forgot to ask why.
Fortunately, the person on the other side was considerate enough to give her the answer before she could even ask the question out of embarrassment.
【HJX: As a thank you gift for feeding me lunch that day. 】
[HJX: The younger generation should be rewarded for being considerate to the elders, after all, it is a traditional virtue. ]
[Don’t be afraid that I can win: This is a bit too expensive…]
[HJX: Not bad. They are basically leftovers given by auction houses.]
[Don't be afraid of me winning...]
The other party hesitated for about ten seconds and then added.
[HJX: Oh, the conch pearl was indeed found on purpose. ]
[Don't be afraid, I can win: My mother said, no merit, no reward, that is, you can't accept valuables from others without a legitimate reason. 】
[HJX: Do you need a legitimate reason?]
[HJX: As your elder, I didn’t give you anything when you had your first birthday celebration, so this is your compensation.]
Gou An: “…………………………………………”
[Don't be afraid, I can win: you were only in the second grade when I was doing the "Zhuazhou" ceremony. ]
【HJX: Hmm?】
【HJX: Yes.】
Afterwards, she probably realized that her excuse was very bad, and no matter how much Gou An bombarded her, He Jinxing never replied to her.
Whenever I called, they hung up directly.
By the time Gou An reacted, she had already been escorted out of the store by everyone in the store, holding a special white shopping bag without a logo. This shopping bag was only available to customers who bought large items in the mall. It was the first time she had seen one.
(End of this chapter)